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Crystalchild said:
VXIII said:
Crystalchild said:
VXIII said:
The game is H.A.R.D , Demon's souls feels like vacation compared to it ... no kidding
and yet, some online features make it much harder like the Gravelord sign.

... God help us all :/


hearing this from a trustworthy source... makes ME EVEN MORE HYPED D: WTF! (I wonder if some people dropped White Sticky Stuff on their Battle Axe's already.. :P)

i challenge this game to drive me insane, or at least, frustrate me. =D .. // Question though, whats a Gravelord Sign? I did import the american version back then (cuz i am one of the leet europpz!.. that kinda killed the sales over here..), but this term doesnt seem familiar at all. o:


It's a part of the new Covenants system ,in which you give an oath to one of the lords to gain special abilities and features, the "Gravelord Servant" covenant is related to Nito (the ugly black skull), if you join his covenant it will give you "Illness inflicting" weapons/spells and the ability to use the Gravelord Sign .. :

"Being a Gravelord's servant allows you to invoke the gravelord ability, which consists of you placing a soul sign of your own on the ground. This soul sign will appear in 3 other player's worlds, wherever you sat the sign down. It is in the best interest for players to hide the soul sign to avoid what I'm about to mention. While the gravelord is invoked, black phantom monsters (upgraded versions of already difficult creatures) will be summoned in 3 other worlds.

The reason for invoking the gravelord isn't to gain humanity. Invasions are. When using the gravelord, if a player dies while under the effect of it, his blood stain will be robbed of half of his souls, all of which are given to the gravelord. If a player finds the soul sign of the gravelord, he can invade the gravelords world and kill him, thus freeing all 3 worlds of the curse. To be frank, all 3 players can invade at the same time, which makes the gravelord very risky, abeit extremely fun.
"

This is crazy. I've beaten the second boss and the amount of traps now is insane, all of my humanity is gone due to dying , I look like un ugly beast at the moment :S , but I have to admit , I've never had so much fun in a long time , the game is a masterpiece.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J97jJhW6d3M


LOL How awesome.. ill go gravelordthingy for sure. ^_^ i was a pretty big asshole in Demons Souls, killing Player's and take away their souls and progress. and i have no intention to change that. ;D

(Even though i played very cheap when it came to PVP, i was just pwning them with an enchanted Meat Cleaver and an assfull of strength. they had no chance.)

 

edit: i wonder though, how do people decide to give an oath? is it something you select while creating a character, or is it a feature that has to be unlocked?


No it has nothing to do with creating your character, there are "people" throughout the game when you talk to them they invite you to join if the conditions apply to you, some of them are not obvious and not meant to be found by everyone ( you need a wiki to help you out here ), I've only seen one so far which gave me the ability to use miracles, but that would be gone I soon as I join another covenant ( Yes, only one covenant at a time )

As a pyromancer I attent to join the Chaos Servant convenant ( The witch's convenant) which gives you advanced fire spells like large lava bomb and firestorm, from what I understood it's only for pyromancers but I'm not sure, anyway The old witch's ring is required to join, I've chosen that as a gift when I created my character .

Anyway, you don't want to break the oaths, there gonna be conciconces , breaking "Blade Of The Darkmoon" for example, gets you name written down in "Book of Guilty" , that mean your assisination is a task of other player now, he will hunt you down

for more info about each one go here ( not yet completed ):

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/covenants



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Kamal said:
God I going to be so caution this time around >.>

I think I may play this game offline for the first week. Mainly due to the Gravelord ability....

Also I was wondering how do you join Covenants? As do you have to meet certain conditions..?
VXIII what did you as this time round?


Yes , there are conditions you have to meet, sometimes it's an item or abandoning  your humanity ( by dying ), in one of them you have to use the kneel gesture in front of a statue , there are also roles you can't break or you gonna regert it .. for more info, see the link:

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/covenants



I am going to have to do some serious reading up on this game, seems fun so far but yea, can see why its called the hardest game :P. Shame you cant invite friends to co-op.



It will be Cleric for me. [sigh] Clobbering minions with a mace takes me back.



VXIII said:
Kamal said:
God I going to be so caution this time around >.>

I think I may play this game offline for the first week. Mainly due to the Gravelord ability....

Also I was wondering how do you join Covenants? As do you have to meet certain conditions..?
VXIII what did you as this time round?


Yes , there are conditions you have to meet, sometimes it's an item or abandoning  your humanity ( by dying ), in one of them you have to use the kneel gesture in front of a statue , there are also roles you can't break or you gonna regert it .. for more info, see the link:

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/covenants


question, if i send phantoms into other worlds, and they die wihile beeing invaded by my minions, do i get anything out of it, like Souls or something? or do they just loose souls, and those go to the gravelord itself, and thats it?



I'm a Foreigner, and as such, i am grateful for everyone pointing out any mistakes in my english posted above - only this way i'll be able to improve. thank you!

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Crystalchild said:
VXIII said:
Kamal said:
God I going to be so caution this time around >.>

I think I may play this game offline for the first week. Mainly due to the Gravelord ability....

Also I was wondering how do you join Covenants? As do you have to meet certain conditions..?
VXIII what did you as this time round?


Yes , there are conditions you have to meet, sometimes it's an item or abandoning  your humanity ( by dying ), in one of them you have to use the kneel gesture in front of a statue , there are also roles you can't break or you gonna regert it .. for more info, see the link:

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/covenants


question, if i send phantoms into other worlds, and they die wihile beeing invaded by my minions, do i get anything out of it, like Souls or something? or do they just loose souls, and those go to the gravelord itself, and thats it?

I'm not sure , I haven't played any online session yet so I can't really tell, The official release date is near, can't wait to start invading :p



Hmm still trying to decide whether I want to be a dexterity build or strength/pyro...



           

Amazon.com is sold out of the Dark Souls Collector's edition for both X360 and PS3. Awesome!

On another matter, I can't understand the animosity a certain PS3 fan has towards X360 owners who have posted on this thread. Lack of party chat is a reasonable complaint, yet he deals out at them with such contempt, as if they demanded something outlandish, something they have no right to. It seems to me he feels there is no place in The Official Dark Souls Thread for the likes of us. I wonder if he resents the fact that Bandai thought t'would be a good idea to give X360 owners the chance to enjoy the ride, to expand the Dark Souls community. Maybe he sides more with the PS3 than he does with Dark Souls. Sad really.



For you 360 virgins...



"Life is but a gentle death. Fate is but a sickness that results in extinction and in the midst of all the uncertainty, lies resolve."

OMG I NEEED THIS GAME NAOWWWWWW !!!!!!!!!!!!!